The first sentence is a red flag:
The science is settled. Just feels like global warming 2. No debate is necessary. Comply!The persistent myth can be put to bed.
Is it wrong of me to want to see a lively, public debate amongst the chosen and the shunned scientists living in a brick ranch out in the country (eg Sorensen)?
Virginia won't be the only state to do this. I just hope FLA doesn't follow suit.
Re: Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Too bad this site doesn't also include age bands on this link.
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I'd maybe cite some papers of my own, but I watched them being deleted in real time late one night months ago. There were some interesting ones about research done in that Wuhan lab, "gain of function" type work that Weinstein was probably talking about. They managed to work a strain found in bats into a strain that was highly infectious to human cells. That was two years ago. But it was the mysterious deleting of these papers a few months ago (back when the only people even paying attention to this virus were "crazy" people like me) that I saw myself late one night that fully convinces me this sucker came from a lab. I don't think it was intentionally created to be let loose, or even intentionally let loose. More likely it's the same as so many other fuckups that come from China, corner-cutting and bad practices. Same reason they get fun things like chains of buildings exploding out of nowhere.
That virology centers routinely increase infectiousness of viruses in labs in order to study them. The equivalent of giving chimpanzees meth so you can more readily study aggressive chimp behavior, and praying that the monkey cage is strong enough and that the handlers don't accidentally unleash meth monkeys on an unsuspecting population.
Which is likely what happened with SARS-COV-2. Who would have thought that a communist country wouldn't have the best adherence to lab and safety standards? Would piss off a LOT of people if they found out it was still happening with other viruses right now all over the world.
Again, the correct response to such pablum, is to demand a quantitative analysis of a situation that is not too reckless, risky, expensive, etc.
Being forced to defend a position is not a new thing. Consider car, life, or health insurance. That’s exactly what they do across entire large industries.
All of a sudden, “better safe than sorry” is a fundamental scientific principle?
The current trend of keeping schools closed and cancelling fall sports may just be the trigger that we need. The one group that may have the balls to shout and demand this end, more than us on this board or small business owners, are this nations mothers.
I am still betting they will try to hit the environmentalism angle. Now that the BLM terrorism is devolving into the deeply unpopular reparations demands, they need a new disaster.
Town in North Carolina approves reparations for Black residents
Mayors back reparations that could cost $6.2 quadrillion, or $151M per descendant
Do we remember the Australian fires of last year? The majority of the fires were suspected to be caused by arson, however the media pushed climate change as the reason.
What is the likelihood that we also see a huge spike in oil and gas prices before the election?
On the China coverup and propoganda issue: Has anyone located Huang Yan Shi? (suspected patient 0 and lab worker) Haven't checked up on it, but she had disappeared and been scrubbed from the internet as of a few months ago.
Oh I am extremely, intimately aware of scientists and research. This awareness makes me realize you are on the fringe of knowing what you are talking about (to be clear, you are and have been generalizing all scientists and their products.) You are totally incorrect in that patent portfolios and trade secrets are what companies see as value produced by their research groups. In the biological sciences there is much more value than this. But again, you are generalizing "scientists" and "research groups."
Again, your original statement was "market value" and now you are saying "value." These are two different things. That's not a philosophy I invented, I'm merely sharing it with you.